Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: stewartia and juglone?, 1 by Equilibrium

Equilibrium wrote:
Juglone is not restricted to Walnuts and Hickories per se.

Don't be overly impressed. There are certain plants that I would love nothing better than to see them blown off the continent of North America and you better be sitting down for this... Ailanthus is one of them. You must be shocked to learn that I feel that way I'm sure. Seriously, I keep up on these 30 plants or so because I don't ever want to miss an opportunity to give them a good plug here and there.

Nope, not healed at all and I've got a few weeks to go but I can now use the thumb and index finger on my right hand. Yippe, space bar AND caps. That is a big help as now I can also use the mouse with my right hand. Before, I was doing this bizarre contortionist move of typing and then reaching my left hand over and across to move the mouse. It was sort of like a computerized game of seated Twister.

Backing up a bit to plants I'd like to see blown off the continent of North America, here's another one that a good friend sent me a photo of. My friend sent it to me titled "The DirtBall Tree". I doctored the photo a little bit and just love sharing it with others any time I can-